(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Teleco and hosting provider PAETEC Holding (www.paetec.com) announced on Thursday it opened a 92,700-square-feet cloud computing data center in Andover, Massachusetts, about 24 miles north of Boston.
First announced in February, the new flagship center will help customers maintain their critical data, server operating applications, network, and communications assets.
It also represents a major step forward for the company towards supporting cloud computing.
The data center serves companies in New England and companies around the nation with a need for geographic redundancy or a presence on the East coast for reduced latency.
The two-story facility includes nearly an acre of raised floor space available for customers to collocate their servers, routers, and other communication equipment.
“Moving business applications from the desktop to the cloud will bring efficiency not possible before,” says Arunas Chesonis, chairman and CEO of PAETEC. “With our expertise in telecommunications and data convergence, we’re in a leading position to support the shift towards cloud computing and can provide our customers with a comprehensive set of managed service solutions to meet their business goals.”
The new data center is the first of nine data centers the company will open across the country in the next 18 months, adding to its existing 1.4 million square feet of data center space.
PAETEC plans to open new centers in Houston, Milwaukee, and Phoenix later this year.
The Andover center will offer data backup and recovery to ensure regulatory compliance, disaster preparedness, and business continuity, as well as dedicated hosted services and shared Web hosting.
PAETEC’s data center solutions are hosted in its highly secure central office and data center collocation sites around the country.
The data center has a staff of 11, equipped with a 24-hour Technical Assistance Center, which connects to a diverse OC-48 fiber ring has redundant power to the grid, backed-up by five 1400 horsepower, one-megawatt generators with 30,000 gallons of diesel fuel.
The center maintains an optimum temperature for customer equipment with 2000 tons of cooling capacity, which draws the cold outside air in winter months to help reduce energy costs and overall consumption.
PAETEC recently hosted a webinar on its data center capabilities, which can be viewed on its website here.
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